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Vice Principal Writes Adorable Letter To The Tooth Fairy When Student Loses Tooth

The tooth fairy is an important figure for children despite the fact that the idea of a tiny, magical creature stealing your bones is actually terrifying. What does the tooth fairy do with all those small teeth? Build a tooth cathedral? I don’t want to know.

But kids love the tooth fairy and take great reverence in the ritual of placing their tooth under the pillow and then waking to find a gift in the morning.

However, not all teeth fall out at home. Some kids swallow their tooth. Other teeth get lost. It’s upsetting!

 

One educator decided to thoughtfully help a student who lost his tooth in school and couldn’t find it by writing him an official letter from the tooth fairy assuring him that there was, indeed, a missing tooth. 

Shandee M. Whitehead, a vice-principal at Hart Highlands School in Prince George, British Columbia, wrote a note to the tooth fairy.

In the note Whitehead explained that a student named Gavin had lost his tooth at lunch and it unfortunately disappeared. 

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“Dear Tooth Fairy,” the letter begins. “Today one of Gavin’s tooth fell out while he was getting ready to eat lunch. Unfortunately, it was lost in the classroom, and despite the heroic efforts of a fearless search team, we were unable to recover it,” Whitehead wrote.  

“As a trained Vice Principal and hobby dentist, I can verify that there is definitely a gap in Gavin’s teeth that was not there this morning when he came in. Please accept this letter as official verification of a lost tooth and provide the standard monetary exchange rate you normally use for a real tooth.” 

Later, “joyless pedants” noted the incorrect use of “tooth” in the letter, but Whitehead explained that the spelling was an inside joke between her and Gavin. 

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Patricia Grisafi

Patricia Grisafi, PhD, is a freelance writer and educator. Her work has appeared in Salon, Vice, Bitch, Bustle, Broadly, The Establishment, and elsewhere. She is passionate about pit bull rescue, cursed objects, and designer sunglasses.